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Show UNS HELD TO ALLIES' TERMS; NO ESSENTIALS TO BE ALTERED British Dominions Overjoyed Over-joyed at the News of Picking Up of Daring Transatlantic Aviators. Commander Read and NC-4 May Not Resume Air Flight for Lisbon Before Tomorrow. LONDON, May 23. Harry O. Hawker and Lieut. Commander MackenEio Griove, tho two airmen who started last Sunday in an at-tompt at-tompt to fly across the Atlantic ocean from St. Johns, N. F., have been picked up at soa and landed iu i Scot-laud. Both niou aro in. perfect health. It Is officially anuouuocd by tha admiralty that tho aviators were picked up In latitude 50.20 longitude longi-tude 29.30, having alighted doeo to the little Danish stcamor Mary, owing to a stoppage of circulation in tho water pipes between tho radia.tor and tho water pump. LONDON, May 25. Hawker has B8nt tho following message from the Bovenge to tho Daily Mail: "My machine stopped owing to the water filter iu tho feed pip from the radiator to tho water pump being blocked with rofnso, such as solder and the like, shaking loose in the radiator." Hawker and Grieve were in tho water for an hour and a half before be-fore being taken aboard tha titeamcr Mary. By FORBES W. FAIRBA1HN. Universal Servico Staff Correspondent. LONDON, .May 25. II any G. Hawkor and Liculrmint 'ninniau'ler Mackenzie tirirvc, w ho fijr several days have, been given up for dead, have been rescued. The two aviators wore picked up in mid-At lanl ic. Monday afternoon ly tho Danish steamship Mary, bound from Norfolk tcj Aalborg. The two airmen have Jicni trans fcrrc'.i from the M.iry lo the Driti.Mli hal tli-shij) Kevcng'1 :ind arc in f pend Die night in Sc;iji:i t'lnw, the Orkneys, as giiesls of Adniii;i I'rein:) it I h1. Tomorrow Tomor-row thev will be piiI iishorc al Thurso, where thev will board a train for London, Lon-don, renching here Tiiehday night. Neither Hawker nor Crievc would con sen t to fl ims: their rem a rka bJc experieiH'e and almo;.t miraiulouH es ca pi: from flea t It over the ad m i ra 11 y telephone t nilight . The Mary reported that he had picked up the two fliers Monday in latitude o'l.'J'i north, lnugil inlc -'l.'l') west , a jirox i mat ey half way li t w een N'ewfou nd la n d a nd t he eoa sf of I re la nd, for wliicli they headed afler leaving St. dohns at (5 o Yloe k la k Sunday eve-nine. eve-nine. RA DIATOK TKOi:iiLK. FORCED SPJA LAM)IN(;. The Tf. plane been foree. to de- S-( ii ij clo'.e t fp till' M -a rner 1 .';) fif stoppage fif ci reu la t ifoi i;i tlie w;iIit pipe leading to Ihe radiator. The Kt earn er li.'i ip( n ed ;, Ion g in the nick of time, b.-ra une the pl;i 11 o e mild Iiol J j ; i V ! lived Ion;; ill 1):e lurinib nt Sea and the l:fei.f,at cfuitriv ance uould have been j of litth: avail. Th'- aeroplane w as aban- dond. flotli ni' n ni'' r'porl'-d to be in j perfe-t 1,, al'li. l'r pa ra 1 inn h are a 1 re a dy under way j for a in nil st or reception on their or-'t or-'t ri a in London, Tu view of flu- levne f , f th" : iator., i Lord N ort he i f f 'h f.rder for a division of the I)aiJy Mail pri-e of .7o'),'Ki0 be- i (Continued on Tac Column 2.) i RESCUED BY DMlSH " SHIP; 'LOST' A WEEK ' - (Continued from Tago OueJ twecn (lie families of Hawker ami tirieve new becomes void, hut. the Mail I announces that a consolation riv.e of1 $'J."i,000 will be divided between the two men who made such a gallant attempt at-tempt to accomplish the feat and secure the honor of the first trans-Atlantic crossing for Britain. WIFE OVERJOYED WHEN NEWS COMES. The placi tidings sprrad through tho city llko wildfire and was greeted' wlih wild demonstrations of Joy everywhere. The i;reatest donionstnuUm took place in the I village of SurMton, hero luwUer hiis his homo. 1 lawker's wife was overjoyed at tho announcement of her husband's 1 rescue. "1 knew he'd come back," she aald to j las'c. "I had n presentiment that ho was not dead, all the time. Oh, I'm the happiest woman in tho world! Harry can try to lly across the Atlantic asain any time he wants to. I'm sure his good lurk will continue." Special thanksgiving services were held in the Surhlton churches tonight. ARE PICKED UP BY DANISH STEAMER MARY. The report of Hawker's rescue was received re-ceived at T.loyda In a wireless message, from the Danish steamship MHry, relayed by the stutlon at the Butt of Lewis, In the Hebrides. The ship's nicssago read: "Have saved all hands Sopwltli airplane." air-plane." Tho station signaled out the inquiry: "Is it Hawker?" "Yes," was the reply from the ship. No further details have been received. The Mary left Norfolk on May 6 for Aatberg, Denmark. l ne aumiraiiy i& umismt, effort to pet in communication with the captain of the Mary to ascertain tho condition of Hawker and Grieve and where they were picked up. The belief is that the fliers must have been picked up somewhere toward mid-Atlantic. mid-Atlantic. This would explain the delay in reporting tholr safety. LONDON HAD LOST ALL HOPE FOR DARING MEN. Condon had absolutely given up hope for the safetv of the aviators. The matter mat-ter had been taken up in parliament, and the government had been severely criticised criti-cised for sending two gallant gentlemen to their death because or its failure to take any measures to insure their satety, although the success of their enterprise would have redounded to the glory or the nation. Hawker and Grieve started from hi. Jnhns. N. F.. on their long-deferred attempt at-tempt to flv across the Atlantic at b o'clock last Sunday evening. The Sop-Iwith Sop-Iwith plane carried a wireless outltt, but i stoamers believed to rave been along the course followed by the plane reported that thev had heard no signals, allhoug.i ... -,.,.1 a litr'nt overhead. which was supposed to have been that J of tile Sopwith plane. GONE A WEEK; ARE SUPPOSED DEAD. Mondav afternoon and evening London was stirred by a series of bulletins announcing an-nouncing Hawkers aoproaeli to the Irish coast, and the admiralty was induced in-duced m dispatch several destroyers to s.u-cl for the plane, which was supposed to have fallen Into the sea off the estuarN or the Shannon. When no Hare was found up to the end of the following day it was taken for granted that both men had perished. |
